Sonia of course has no experiencing in administering a country, or in any field of economics or management.

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Tokyo has differed from similar pledging conferences of recent years in one important respect: unlike in the cases of Bosnia, or Kosovo, or even East Timor, no formal international structure is being set up to co-ordinate the reconstruction effort and to shoulder much of the burden of administering a country that, after more than 20 years of strife, has only the most rudimentary governmental mechanism of its own.

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Both point to the fragile state of security in the country as the primary obstacle to administering any such scheme, at least for the time being.

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It is also hard for any country that has dismantled its bureaucratic machinery for administering capital controls to reintroduce them quickly.

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